I was wondering if the numbers run higher in children. I had a difficult time controlling my gestational diabetes with my last daughter (now 3) and she sometimes shows what I think might be signs of diabetes. Not consistently though. She has days were she can’t get enough water to drink, she has days that shortly after a meal she just gets mean as crap, and she’s been having consistent yeast infections. I finally got my husband to help me (she’s afraid of my lancet) check her BG 2 hours after dinner tonight and it was 134 mg/dl. Would be about normal for me these days.
Anyway, is this something I should be concerned with at this point. I don’t have insurance so I don’t want to go for blood work if not necessary.
134 is pretty normal two hours after eating. It is a little high, but just barely. I dont beleive cildrens BS’s run high. More likely they run low, if there is any normal vairation. Since you are concerned, ask your doctor for a glucose tolerance test. It will put your mind to rest for sometime.
Therein lies the rub. She has no insurance as yet. I have been fighting with the state to prove that she is a US Citizen!
Don’t understand, they believe her older sister is but not her. Nothing has changed. Same father, Same mother, Same hospital, Same address for 18 years.
I have been fighting for a year and a half now.
ugh…thank you. She is a carb junkie on top of it all. A natural vegetarian that doesn’t like vegetables…I will stop worrying so much.
Infants and toddlers do run a bit higher than normal. Try giving her a healthier (lower carb) diet. Reduce the packaged, refined, processed, man-made carbs, and increase the natural ones. Also, kids are full of energy. Is she getting ample time to play?
We make too much for any other services according to the federal poverty level.
It doesn’t help that we live in one of the most expensive counties in MD.
If they’re denying she’s a citizen, it’s going to be impossible to get her into the school services. I’d go find the person who delivered her & refuse to leave til they fill out the forms needed to get her a birth certificate.
Also get the county to refer you to an endocrinologist who will give a free A1c on an office-type A1c.
I’m operating on the basis that 134 is fine/a bit high for a Type 1 diabetic to be two hours after a meal, but normal people have them back down where they started. Do you have a fasting blood sugar?
Newspapers are sometimes great for helping expose lack of children services, but try other things first.
Normal children have lower blood sugars than adults–fbg in 70s.
My daughter had terrible yeast infections all through babyhood. Turns out she runs in the 130s most of the time because she has inherited whatever it is I have. OTOH, she doesn’t go much higher than that, so like me, she’ll probably be fine unless she lets someone give her prednisone. Prednisone turned me from pre-diabetic to fully diabetic. Permanently.
If I were you, I’d check her a bit more to see what kind of peaks she is spiking after meals. If she isn’t going over 160 then all you would have to do would be feed her foods that are towards the low carb end of the spectrum and as she gets older make sure she understands that eating sweets and starches will make her feel bad.
If she is spiking higher than that, there may be a problem. Doctors are very unresponsive to blood sugar problems that are less than full fledged diabetes, so it’s hard to say what to do. You don’t want to waste money on a doctor who will shrug it off. But by the same token, it would be nice to find help.
Another possibility might be to invest in a pack of glucose urine test strips and see if your daughter’s urine is testing positive for glucose. This could point to one of the MODYs especially if it is happening when she is running blood sugars not higher than 160. The strips only cost about $10 a pack. You can cut each one into 3. Less invasive a test for a kid. If you see a lot of glucose in the urine, you do need a doc.
Call your regional teaching hospital and talk to a social worker to see if there is a program that helps kids without insurance. Many states have them.
